Jacinta Stapleton
- Actress
Jacinta Patrice Stapleton is an Australian actress born in Melbourne,
Victoria.
She joined an actors' agency at the age of six and made her screen
debut at the age of eight, appearing in "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
This was followed by many children's television shows, including "The
Flying Doctors" and "Genie From Down Under", all whilst completing her
schooling at the Catholic Girls College, Star of the Sea.
Wanting to expand on her performance skills, she completed the last two
years of high school at Sandringham Secondary College, which focused
predominantly on the arts.
Upon finishing school, Jacinta was asked to appear for five weeks in
the highly successful television soap, "Neighbours". The role quickly
expanded and Jacinta spent three years on the popular show playing the
complex and controversial character, Amy.
After leaving the soap, she traveled overseas to study acting and voice
and has since studied Meisner technique, Practical Aesthetics and more
recently, closely with Ivana Chubbuck in Australia and Los Angeles.
Whilst in the UK, Jacinta played Snow White in a theatre production.
Upon her return to Australia, she appeared in Patrick Hughes first
film, "The Director", then landed the coveted lead female role, in
"Romeo and Juliet" with The Australian Shakespeare Company.
Jacinta appeared on various TV dramas in Melbourne and Sydney and also
American productions of "Beastmaster", "Lost World" and Stephen King's,
"Nightmares and Dreamscapes", before landing a lead role in the prime
time drama, "Stingers".
Her performance garnered an AFI nomination for Best Supporting Actress
in a Television Drama.
She then appeared in many guest roles, before appearing as a recurring
character on "All Saints", then "Out Of The Blue". She also had a small
role in Nadia Tass' feature film, "Matching Jack, and played the lead
in independent genre film, "Muscle Car".
Her 2013 credits include playing an American record producer in the
highly anticipated INXS mini-series, and her role as the controversial
Mercedes Corby in the televmovie, Schapelle (both to be aired in
Australia in February, 2014).
She is also a voice artist and has many animated credits to her name,
including "The Davincibles" and "Santa's Apprentice".
Victoria.
She joined an actors' agency at the age of six and made her screen
debut at the age of eight, appearing in "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
This was followed by many children's television shows, including "The
Flying Doctors" and "Genie From Down Under", all whilst completing her
schooling at the Catholic Girls College, Star of the Sea.
Wanting to expand on her performance skills, she completed the last two
years of high school at Sandringham Secondary College, which focused
predominantly on the arts.
Upon finishing school, Jacinta was asked to appear for five weeks in
the highly successful television soap, "Neighbours". The role quickly
expanded and Jacinta spent three years on the popular show playing the
complex and controversial character, Amy.
After leaving the soap, she traveled overseas to study acting and voice
and has since studied Meisner technique, Practical Aesthetics and more
recently, closely with Ivana Chubbuck in Australia and Los Angeles.
Whilst in the UK, Jacinta played Snow White in a theatre production.
Upon her return to Australia, she appeared in Patrick Hughes first
film, "The Director", then landed the coveted lead female role, in
"Romeo and Juliet" with The Australian Shakespeare Company.
Jacinta appeared on various TV dramas in Melbourne and Sydney and also
American productions of "Beastmaster", "Lost World" and Stephen King's,
"Nightmares and Dreamscapes", before landing a lead role in the prime
time drama, "Stingers".
Her performance garnered an AFI nomination for Best Supporting Actress
in a Television Drama.
She then appeared in many guest roles, before appearing as a recurring
character on "All Saints", then "Out Of The Blue". She also had a small
role in Nadia Tass' feature film, "Matching Jack, and played the lead
in independent genre film, "Muscle Car".
Her 2013 credits include playing an American record producer in the
highly anticipated INXS mini-series, and her role as the controversial
Mercedes Corby in the televmovie, Schapelle (both to be aired in
Australia in February, 2014).
She is also a voice artist and has many animated credits to her name,
including "The Davincibles" and "Santa's Apprentice".